Creating the Life You Love

Letting Go

In dealing with my mother’s cancer I am continuously reminded of the importance of taking one day at a time and letting go of as much of the ‘small stuff’ as possible. Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and ubsurdities have crept in;forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsence.”

I encourage her (and myself) to treat each new day as a gift – particularly those exquisitely precious ones that contain no doctor appointments, chemo infusions, or radiation treatments. What might we savor today?